The MER-KA-BA Meditation as a technique

The Teaching Of Spherical Breathing: Using 18 Breaths

There are 17+1 breaths, where the first six are for balancing the polarity, the next seven for
proper pranic flow through the entire body. The further breaths are for shifting the consciousness
from 3rd to 4th dimension and finally the last three breaths is for re-creating the rotating
Merkabah within and around the body. The last breath is not taught.

Once each day, enter into this meditation, until the time comes when you are a conscious
breather, remembering with each breath your intimate connection with all life in the Universe.

The Merkaba is a tool that helps humans reach their full potential. The Merkaba is a crystalline
energy field that is comprised of specific sacred geometries that align the mind, body, and heart
together. This energy field created from sacred geometry extends around the body for a distance
of 55 feet. These geometric energy fields normally spin around our bodies at close to the speed
of light, but for most of us they have slowed down or stopped spinning entirely due to a lack of
attention and use. When this field is reactivated and spinning properly, it is called a Merkaba.

A fully activated Merkaba looks just like the structure of a galaxy. The Merkaba enables us to
experience expanded awareness, connects us with elevated potentials of consciousness, and
restores access and memory of the infinite possibilities of our being. When the Merkaba
meditation is performed correctly, the Merkaba fluidly integrates our feminine (intuitive,
receptive) and masculine (active, dynamic) aspects of our mind and spirit.

See also for more details Merkaba Breath 1-6, Merkaba Breath 7-14, Merkaba Breath 7-14,
Merkaba Breath 16-17 and Merkaba Breath 18

In principal it is all about expanding your heart, make it more pure and stabalize it, in order to
experience unity consciousness. But even in this objective many mental concepts are included as
long as you have not experienced these feelings from the heart.

If you want to become enlightenent the first step is to realize you have a star around your body
and yours is beautifull. By practising the MerKaBa meditation you improve your self esteem by
connecting to both your male and female stars. By both feeling and visualizing them you also
work on a quiet deep level on improving the emotional and mental relationship with your father
and mother. (and ancestors).
Merkaba Breaths 1-6
Improve your relationships

The objective of this phase it to balance your relationship with the universe and the planet. More
concrete: healing the relationship with your father and mother and in addition your ancestors.
Breathing with the same amount of energy, love, awareness and joy

Below you will encounter the explanation as suplied by Drunvalo Melchizedeck.

Instrcutions for the first six Merkaba Breaths

FIRST BREATH: Inhale

HEART: Open your heart and feel love for all life. If you cannot do this, you must at least open
to this love as much as is possible for you. This is the most important instruction of all.

MIND: Become aware of the male tetrahedron (the apex facing up to the sun, the point facing to
the front for male, the point to the back for females) filled with the brilliant white light
surrounding your body. Visualize it the best you can. If you cannot visualize it, sense or feel it
surrounding you.

BODY: At the same moment of inhalation, place your hands in the mudra of your thumb and
first finger touching. Remember, lightly touch your fingers, and do not allow your fingers to
touch each other or any other object. Keep your palms facing up.

BREATH: At this same moment, with empty lungs, begin to breath in a complete yogic manner.
Breath through your nostrils only, except at certain places which will be described. Simply put,
breath from your stomach first, then your diaphragm, and finally your chest. Do this in one
movement, not three parts. The exhale is completed either by holding the chest firm and relaxing
the stomach, slowly releasing the air, or by holding the stomach firm and relaxing the chest. The
most important aspect is that this breathing must be rhythmic. Begin by using seven seconds in
and seven seconds out, but as you get familiar with this meditation, find your own rhythm. The
following instructions for a complete Yogic Breath are from "the Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath"
by Yogi Ramacharake. Perhaps this description will be helpful.
Breathing through the nostrils, inhale steadily, first filling the lower part of the lungs, which is
accomplished by bringing into play the diaphragm, which descending exerts a gentle pressure on
the abdominal organs, pushing forward the front walls of the abdomen. Then fill the middle part
of the lungs, pushing out the lower ribs, breastbone and chest. Then fill the higher portion of the
lungs, protruding the upper chest, thus lifting the chest, including the upper six or even pairs of
ribs. At first reading it may appear that this breath consists of three distinct movements. This,
however, is not the correct idea. The inhalation is continuous, the entire chest cavity from the
lowered diaphragm to the highest point of the chest in the region of the collar bone, being
expanded with a uniform movement. Avoid a jerky series of inhalations, and strive to attain a
steady continuous action. Practice will soon overcome the tendency to divide the inhalation into
three movements, and will result in a uniform continuous breath. You will be able to complete
the inhalation in a few seconds after a little practice.

Exhale quite slowly, holding the chest in a firm position, and drawing the abdomen in a little and
lifting it upward as the air leaves the lungs. When the air is entirely exhaled, relax the chest and
abdomen. A little practice will render this part of the exercise easy, and the movement once
acquired will be afterward performed almost automatically.

FIRST BREATH: Exhale

HEART: Love

MIND: Become aware of the female tetrahedron, (apex pointing to the earth, point facing to the
back for males, point facing to the front for females), also filled with the brilliant white light

BODY: Keep the same mudra.

BREATH: Do NOT hesitate at the top of the inhalation to begin the exhalation. Exhale quite
slowly, approximately seven seconds, in the Yogic manner. When the air is out of the lungs,
without forcing, relax the chest and abdomen and HOLD the breath. When you feel pressure to
breathe again, after about five seconds or so, then do the following:

MIND: Be aware of the flat equilateral triangle at the top of the female tetrahedron located in the
horizontal plane that passes through your chest at the sternum. In a flash, and with a pulse like
energy, send that triangular plane down through the female tetrahedron. It gets smaller as it goes
down and pushes out the tip or apex of the tetrahedron all the negative energy of the mudra or
electrical circuit, a light will shoot out of the apex toward the center of the Earth. The Mind
exercise is performed along with the following BODY movements.

BODY: Move your eyes slightly toward each other, or, in other words, slightly cross your eyes.
Now bring them up to the top of their sockets, or in other words, look up. Also, this looking up
motion should not be extreme. You will feel a tingling feeling between your eyes in the area of
your third eye . You can now look down to the lowest point you can, as fast as you can. You
should feel an electrical sensation move down your spine. The MIND and BODY must
coordinate the above mental exercise with the eye movements. The eyes look down from their up
position at the same time the mind sees the triangular horizontal plane of the female tetrahedron
move down to the apex of the female tetrahedron. This combined exercise will clean out the
negative thoughts and feelings that have entered into your electrical system. Specifically, it will
clean out the part of your electrical system that is associated with the particular mudra you are
using. Immediately upon pulsing the energy down your spine, you change mudras to the next one
and begin the entire cycle over again. The next five breaths are a repeat of the first breath with
the following mudra changes:

Second breath mudra: Thumb and second finger together

Third breath mudra: Thumb and third finger together

Fourth breath mudra: Thumb and little finger together

Fifth breath mudra: Thumb and first finger together (same as first breath)

Sixth breath mudra: Thumb and second finger together (same as second breath)

The first part, the first six breaths, the balancing of the polarities, and the cleansing of your
electrical system is now complete. You are now ready for the next part, the next seven breaths.
Merkaba Breaths 7-14
Improve your inmune system and compassion

The objective of this phase it to improve your inmune system and your compasssion. This sounds
promissing but it can be reality, although you need advanced instructions from our workshop
program to make this experience complete, solid and strong

Below you will encounter the basic explanation as suplied by Drunvalo Melchizedeck. In
addition we offer a graphical explanation, which you can download.

Instrcutions for the Merkaba Breaths 7 to 14

Here an entirely new breathing pattern begins. You do not need to visualize the star tetrahedron
at this time. Only the tube that runs through the star, from the apex of the male tetrahedron above
your head to the apex of the female tetrahedron below your feet, needs to be seen and worked
with. This extends one hand length above your head and one hand length below your feet. The
diameter of YOUR tube will be the size of the hole formed by YOUR thumb and forefinger
touching.

SEVENTH BREATH: Inhale

HEART: Love. There is another refinement here that can be used after you have perfected this
meditation.

MIND: Visualize or sense the tube running through your body. The instant you begin the seventh
inhale, see the brilliant white light of the prana moving down the tube from the top and up the
tube from the bottom at the same time. This movement is almost instantaneous. The point where
these two light beams meet within your body is controlled by the mind and is a vast science
known throughout the universe. In this teaching however, we will only be shown what is
necessary , that which will take you from third to fourth dimensional awareness. In this case you
will direct the two beams of prana to meet at your navel, or more correct, within your body at
navel level, inside the tube. The moment the two beams of prana meet, which is just as the inhale
begins, a sphere of white light or prana is formed at the meeting point about the size of a
grapefruit centered on the tube. It all happens in an instant. As you continue to take the inhale of
the seventh breath, the sphere of prana begins to concentrate and grow slowly.

BODY: For the next seven breaths use the same mudra for both inhale and exhale, the thumb,
first and second touching together palms up.

BREATH: Deep rhythmic Yogic breathing, seven seconds in and seven seconds out. There is no
holding of the breath from now on. The flow of prana from the two poles will not stop or change
in any way when you go from inhale to exhale. It will be a continuous flow that will not stop for
a long as you breath in this manner, even after death.

SEVENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The prana sphere centered at the navel continues to grow. By the time of the full exhale,
the prana sphere will be approximately eight or nine inches in diameter.

BREATH: Do not force the air out of your lungs. When your lungs are empty naturally,
immediately begin the next breath.

EIGHTH BREATH:Inhale

HEART: Love.

MIND: The prana sphere continues to concentrate life force energy and grow in size

EIGHT BREATH: Exhale

MIND: The prana sphere continues to grow in size and will reach maximum size at the end of
this breath. This maximum size is different for each person. If you put your longest finger in the
center of your navel, the line on your wrist defining your hand will show you the radius of the
maximum size of this sphere for YOU. This sphere of prana cannot grow larger.

NINTH BREATH: Inhale

MIND: The prana sphere cannot grow larger, so what happens is the prana begins to concentrate
within the sphere. The visual appearance is that the sphere grows BRIGHTER.

BREATH: Sphere grows brighter and brighter as you inhale.

NINTH BREATH: Exhale

BREATH: As you exhale, the sphere continues to grow brighter and brighter.

TENTH BREATH: Inhale

MIND: About half way through this inhale, as the sphere continues to brighter, the prana sphere
reaches critical mass. The sphere ignites into a sun, a brilliant blinding ball of white light. You
are now ready for the next step.

TENTH BREATH: Exhale

MIND: At the moment of exhale, the small sphere two hand lengths in diameter bulges to
expand. In one second, combined with the breath talked about below, the sphere expands quickly
out to the sphere of Leonardo, out at your finger tips of your extended arms. Your body is now
completely enclosed within a huge sphere of brilliant white light. You have returned to the
ancient form of spherical breathing. However, at this point, this sphere is not stable. You MUST
breath three more times to keep the sphere stable.

BREATH: At the moment of exhale, make a small hole with your lips and blow out your air with
pressure. As you feel the sphere begin to bulge, all within the first second of this exhale, let all of
your air out rapidly. The sphere will expand at that moment.

ELEVENTH, TWELFTH and THIRTEENTH BREATH: Inhale and Exhale

MIND: Relax and just feel the flow of the prana flowing from the two poles and meeting at the
navel and then expanding out to the large sphere

BREATH: Breath rhythmically and deeply. At the end of the thirteenth breath you have
stabilized the large sphere and are ready for the important 14th breath.

THE FOURTEENTH BREATH

HEART: Love

MIND: On the inhale of the 14th breath, at the very beginning of the breath, move the point
where the two beams of prana meet from the navel to the sternum, the fourth dimensional chakra.
The entire large sphere, along with the original sphere, which is also still contained within the
large sphere, moves up to the new meeting point within the tube. Though this is very easy to do,
it is an extremely powerful movement. Breathing from this new point within the tube will
inevitably change your awareness from third to fourth dimensional consciousness, or from earth
consciousness to Christ consciousness.

BODY: This mudra will be used for the rest of the meditation. Place the left palm on top of the
right palm for males and the right palm on top of the left palm for females. It is a mudra that
relaxes.

BREATH: Rhythmic breath and deep. However, if you continue to breathe from your Christ
center without moving on to the MER-KA-BA, which is what is recommended until you have
made contact with your Higher Self, then shift to a shallow breath. In other words, breath
rhythmically but in a comfortable manner where your attention is more on the flow of energy
moving up and down the tube meeting at the sternum and expanding out to the large sphere. Just
feel the flow. Use your feminine side to just be. At this point don't think, just breath, feel and be.
Feel your connection to All Life through the Unity Breath. Remember your intimate connection
with the Universe.
Merkaba Breath 15
Start your Engines

The objective of this phase it to start your engines and put them into the neutral position just like
your car. The engines run but you are not getting anywhere at this stage.

Below you will encounter the basic explanation as suplied by Drunvalo Melchizedeck. In
addition we offer a graphical explanation, which you can download.

Instrcutions for the Merkaba Breath 15

BREATH 15

Say to yourself: "Equal speed." Exhale in the manner of the tenth breath and visualize the two
sets of whole star tetrahedrons spin in opposite directions at equal speed. You have started the
motor of the merkaba.

Within a second the stars reach a speed of 1/3 of the lightspeed. This is already high but is the
limit of this shape with the ratio of equal speed. Faster is not possible.

After breath 15 you can have a break and enjoy the motor running
Merkaba Breath 16 and 17
Enter your creation power

The objective of this phase it to enter your creation power. You have put your engine into
accelaration mode. Now you can move with your super sonic car. No driving licence requiered.

Below you will encounter the basic explanation as suplied by Drunvalo Melchizedeck. In
addition we offer a graphical explanation, which you can download.

BREATH 16

While inhaling, say to yourself: "Thirty-four, twenty-one." The two sets of complete tetrahedrons
will start spinning at a ratio of 34:21. As you feel the speed increasing, let out all your breath
with force. The tetrahedrons are now spinning at two-third the speed of light. As they approach
this speed, a disc, about 55 feet in diameter, forms around the body at the level of the base of the
spine. The sphere of energy centered around the tetrahedrons forms, with the disc, a shape that
looks like a flying saucer. This energy matrix is your merkaba.

BREATH 17

As you breathe in, say to yourself: "Nine-tenths the speed of light," increasing the speed of the
merkaba accordingly. This will stabilize the rotating field of energy. As you feel the speed,
exhale forcefully. You are now in your stable and third-dimensionally tuned merkaba.

After breath 17 you can have a break and enjoy the the gaalxy you life in. Be aware of the border
of your disk. See the dolphins having fun at the border of your disk

You can now take of and fly to whatever location you want. While you are aware of your body in
the 3rd diemension. In the Tree of Life workshop program we fly to planets in our solar system.